Magdalenenkapelle (Mannheim)
The Magdalenenkapelle is a Catholic chapel in the Mannheim district of Straßenheim . It used to be a parish church and today it is one of the oldest sacred buildings in the Mannheim area. Parts of the structure date from the 13th century. The chapel is classified as a cultural monument of special importance .
history
Straßenheim was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in 903 . It is not known since when there was a church in town. A foundation letter from 1408 has survived, in which the noble Metze von Neipperg furnished the existing chapel with goods and transferred the patronage rights to the Worms cathedral chapter , so that the chapel was elevated to a parish church the following year. In 1556 the Reformation was introduced in the Electoral Palatinate . In the course of the Thirty Years War , the reformed parish was abolished and Ladenburg was responsible for the now again Catholic church service . After the War of the Palatinate Succession , the chapel seems to have not been used for several decades. It was only renovated again under Elector Carl Theodor and consecrated again in 1750 by the Worms Auxiliary Bishop von Merle , in honor of Maria Magdalena .
In 1814, Straßenheim was pastorized from Viernheim , from 1817 by Heddesheim and finally in 1913 Wallstadt became responsible ( Christ-König-Kirche ). The slender Gothic roof turret of the church was replaced by today's massive one in 1816. In 1955 the chapel was renovated. Further renovations followed in the early 1980s and 2006/07.
description
The Magdalenenkapelle stands in the center of the street home, which consists of only a few houses. It has a rectangular floor plan with a straight choir . It is covered by a hipped roof , which is crowned by a ridge turret. The basic substance of the building probably comes from the 13th century, the Gothic pointed arch windows and the pointed arch portal from the 16th century. The baroque design of the 50-person interior goes back to the renovation in the middle of the 18th century. The marbled wooden altar is flanked by two putti (1750) and crowned by a crucifix (1790). Inside it hides an older altar made of roughly hewn sandstone . The bell in the roof turret was donated in 1765.
The Magdalenenkapelle surrounds a 17th century churchyard , one of the oldest in Mannheim. The cemetery walls in the east and north are still original. The historicizing portal on the south side was created in 1845.
literature
- Hans Weckesser: Street home. In: Mannheim before the city was founded, Part II Volume 2: The Mannheim suburbs and districts. Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7917-2022-7 .
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim II district . Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00556-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen, December 19, 2008 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 58, November 21, 903 - Reg. 3554. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 118 , accessed on February 28, 2016 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 49.7 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 38.5" E